Hi folks,

This patch should fix the video playback issues that players on Linux were experiencing. Please let me know if you see any problems.

Hi folks,

You may be wondering about the latest update to the game! This is a maintenance update with a few good bug fixes in it - the biggest one is a fix for the problem some players saw where they could not find all the stories in the game. In addition, vignettes are better randomized, some performance updates, other minor bugs, and the engine was updated to a newer version in order to make things run better and be easier to fix in the future. This should hopefully also fix the crash some users were seeing with newer MacOS versions.

Thanks for playing, and please let me know if you experience any new problems.

We're incredibly excited to announce that the Gold Mountain content update is now available. Free for everyone who owns Where The Water Tastes Like Wine on Steam, the Gold Mountain update introduces new tales focusing on the experience of Chinese Americans and their impact on American history and culture. It also introduces full Chinese language support thanks to the amazing work of a wonderful Chinese localization team led by Ryan Zhang.

The update also introduces a variety of performance and quality-of-life improvements, including the following:

• General bug fixes and Quality of Life Improvements
  
• Improved Performance
  
• Fixes to Story Locations
  
• Improved controls
  
• Addresses several localization bugs and issues

The Gold Mountain update was created to honor the millions of Chinese-Americans generally overlooked in American history. We hope that you enjoy the new original stories that are included in the update and look forward to reading all of your thoughts.

Thanks a million for all of your continued support for Where The Water Tastes Like Wine from everyone at Dim Bulb Games, Serenity Forge and Good Shepherd Entertainment!

It is always a hope for a creator that their work can be appreciated widely, across the divide of different countries and languages.
我们认为，艺术和文化理应跨越语言的藩篱，为世界范围内传播和赏鉴。

When we released this game, we are were pleased to see the passionate, excited fans who love the game, and to share American folklore and history with the world.
发布这款游戏，我们即为见证了粉丝们的热情而感到满足，也为世界各地的人们能有机会了解到美国文史而感到荣幸。

Some fans go above and beyond, and create their own art, or writing, or other work of their own to pay homage to the game.
不仅如此，一些粉丝更通过艺术创作、写作或其它作品方式来向游戏致敬。

Some of them speak multiple languages, and decide to translate the game into their own language. This is no small undertaking - Where the Water Tastes Like Wine has almost a million words, and the writing in the game is based very strongly on American culture and history. It is also beautiful and poetic, something often difficult to capture in translation.
他们中的一些人同时懂得英文和中文，并决定将游戏翻译成自己的母语：中文。这不是一件轻松的工作，《彼处水如酒》原始英文版大约包含近百万单词，绝大多数文字都是包含了美国文史背景的文学性描述。

A wonderful Chinese localization team, led by Ryan Zhang, has spent four months to translate the entire game, plus the lyrics to the soundtrack, for players in China. We are humbled and gratified by this, and we hope that Chinese players can play and enjoy our game, and understand our criticism of and reflection on America history and American culture.
Ryan带领的优秀中文本地化团队，历时四个月，为广大中国玩家把整个游戏翻译成了中文！不仅如此，他们还为游戏原声音乐重填了中文歌词！我们对此深感谦卑和欣慰，希望广大中国玩家既能玩得开心，也能了解到我们对美国历史、美国文化的批判和反思。

We know that China has its own wonderful and varied folklore in its thousands of years of history, and we hope that players there find our relatively small and brief American history and folklore to be interesting to them.
我们深知，中国在数千年的历史中，积淀了丰富多彩的民间传说。我们希望，中国玩家能对我们相对简短狭隘的美国历史和民间传说产生些许兴趣。

In addition, to honor the millions of Chinese-Americans generally overlooked in American history, we are also writing new stories for the game that focus more on the role of Chinese-Americans in the US. From miners in California to the railroad workers who bridged the continent to a whole host of other folks, Chinese immigrants have played a huge role in building this country. We're happy to be able to write more exploring their stories.
此外，为了表达我们对沉睡在美国历史中的万千普通华裔的敬意，我们正在为游戏撰写一批新的故事，着力关注华裔角色。从加州的矿工，到联结大路桥的铁路工人，中国移民为建设这个国家发挥过巨大的作用。我们很高兴能多多撰写探索他们的故事。

Today I am happy to release the free Chinese version of Fireside Chats, and to announce that we will release the full Chinese version of the game once we have finished the new content.
今天，我很高兴能首先发布免费中文版的《彼处水如酒：炉边夜话》，并宣布我们一旦完成新追加内容，就发布中文完整版游戏。

Thank you all for playing!
感谢您的赏玩！

Hi Folks,

As a free companion game to WTWTLW, we've released "Fireside Chats". This contains new stories told by each of the 16 characters, plus the full first chapter conversation with Dire Wolf. This content is new and not seen in the full game.

You can find it here.

Thank you again for playing, and I hope you enjoy all these new tales, as well.

We've released some new stories by some new writers! In the latest update you'll find 15 new vignettes scattered around the country, ranging from the terrifying to the disgusting to the hilarious. All of them are voiced once again by the talented Keythe Farley.

In addition, we've fixed a few bugs, and added an autowalk mode - Press the F key on keyboard, or the right bumper on controller to walk steadily forward without needing to hold the key or stick.

Thank you for playing!

Hi!

Today I'm putting in a change that will hopefully smooth out the story distribution. Instead of having all of the stories in a spot show up right away, some of them will only appear once you're further along the main task.

This will mean that visiting places you've already been will be more interesting, and that you won't get more stories than you know what to do with early on.

As always, please let me know about feedback or bugs in the forum!

Thanks for playing.

Hi!

Today I'm putting in a change that will hopefully smooth out the story distribution. Instead of having all of the stories in a spot show up right away, some of them will only appear once you're further along the main task.

This will mean that visiting places you've already been will be more interesting, and that you won't get more stories than you know what to do with early on.

As always, please let me know about feedback or bugs in the forum!

Thanks for playing.

HI folks! Today's patch adds more tutorialization, including an in-game manual! Press D-Pad up or H on the keyboard to view it. Please let me know if you think anything in there could be clarified or expanded.

In addition, mousewheel should work on the story swap screen now, and I've fixed a few other minor bugs. As always, please feel free to give me your feedback, suggestions, or bug reports and I will do my best to help.

Thanks for playing!